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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1913
Page
12
Mt. Auburn reports social visits in Vinton and Waterloo with funeral attendance for Jobo St. Clair and extended kinship work across Cedar Rapids La Porte City and Oelwein. Linden notes Joe LaTier's fifth birthday party and local illnesses births and civic updates including a new telephone pay station and sidewalk improvements.
Rockford updates include Mrs Fannie Bailey hosting Eastern Star instruction in Mason City last Friday, Fred Peppers buying the half interest in C M Aurand’s barber shop, and Mrs G H Kendall and Ruth visiting Cedar Rapids. Local residents travel for burials, club meetings, plays, and exams. Jean McNell takes a teaching post, and the K P lodge repairs its hall while others seek medical treatment and rural carrier exams.
Numerous visits and small community events mark the day in New Hartford. W 58 Johnston of Eldora stays with R E Wick. Harry Soper of Boone visits. Adam Hoffman with Shell Rock relatives. Mr and Mrs E B Philo visit Cedar Falls. County Clerk Geo Dennis, from Allison, attends. Mrs W H Shannon celebrated her forty fifth birthday with a surprise party and a valuable gift. Miss Lillian Knipe hosts twelve Cedar Falls State Teachers College students. Ruth Merryfield is surprised with a linen show. Rev H A Essex travels to Detroit for a Northern Baptist convention then to London Canada to visit his mother. Mrs Roscoe Gage heads to Medora, N D to visit sister.
Mrs John Gates returns from Cedar Rapids meetings with the Iowa Federation of ant Clubs. Wm Sproul visits Buffalo. H A Laeten attends Undertakers State Convention in Davenport. Mrs J N Neal and Mrs J B Miller attend Royal Neighbors school in Iowa Falls. Miriam Downing funeral held at St Mary's church. Rev John W Chase chosen as Presbyterians minister. May festival trip to Mt Vernon. Fred Sylvester family attend Hilda and Roy Fowler wedding in Waterloo. Capt W L Starkweather dies in Primghar at eighty. Funeral at Methodist church. interment Rose Hill.
The public library increases youth reading material for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. Shelves in the children’s room mark books with silver stars for scouts and gold stars for girls, with about two hundred Camp Fire Girls in Waterloo and plans for new Scout patrols this summer. Parents and all young people are invited to browse and foster good reading.
The St. Joseph's parish in Gilbertville raised 1800 dollars on a single Sunday for a philosophy department at St. Joseph's College in Dubuque. The 150 farming families exceeded expectations, aiding the Dubuque archdiocese effort while the parish remains financially stable with church complex valued at about 65000 dollars high above Cedar River.
Rev William Beachler pastor of First Brethren church delivers baccalaureate sermon to West High School seniors on factors of a successful life. He highlights Moses as a model of refusal choosing and endurance and urges graduates to follow a godly, service oriented life.
In Williams Indiana May 26 an unusual celebration honored a couple's fifty first wedding anniversary at the home of Mr and Mrs Thomas Duffy. The event also belatedly marked Mr Duffy's 102nd birthday. He came to Iowa sixty years ago and has lived in Hamilton county Williams township and city for the last forty five years.
A speaker urges refusing to quit and using judgment in choices to build endurance. Music featured Buck's Festival Te Deum by a quartet and He Shall Feed His Flock performed by Patt Lindner and Cora Bunn. Chamberlain's Tablets are advertised as a cure for stomach disorders.
In Clarion a claim emerges that A W Youse will receive six horses in return for four stolen from his Lamoille farm in 1909. O G Kolbe of Tama, confessing to the theft, says two mares and their foals were taken and later split between relatives, with two colts sold to a neighbor.
An article extols women's influence on society and health, contrasting ideal vitality with a mentally depleted woman. It urges readers to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as restoration for women’s birthright of perfect physical health.
Charles Bowman of Marble Rock visited relatives in Greene on Saturday. John Belknap of Anamosa stopped by the Rev L Lockard home Friday. Ed Morrill has been ill with heart trouble. Mr and Mrs Mike Brunner welcomed a son born May 18. Samuel Thomas is recovering from illness. Andra Morrison becomes Bollers store clerk. Marilla Hodgdon returned from Waterloo visit. Wm Hitchcock of Rudd attended Capt Starkweather’s funeral.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a pleasant sugar coated, vegetable formula that gently stimulates bowels and liver to purify the system. It claims relief from bad breath without calomel’s side effects and lists 10c and 26a per box with delivery from the Olive Tablet Company in Coahoma, Ohio.
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